Local News

Workers at Bombardier are officially on strike. Hundreds of workers were outside of the Thunder Bay Bombardier plant with signs in hand, spilling onto Montreal Street just after 4 p.m. as the strike deadline passed.

City officials announced the lineup for the upcoming fifth annual Superior Youth Festival concert, and headliner Sheepdogs will be the event’s centrepiece.

The black bear believed to have attacked a woman at Pukaskwa National Park near Marathon has been killed.

With 25 new fire starts in the Northwest region Monday, MNR fire crews are still in need of isolated precipitation to bring the blazes under control.

The provincial NDP leader says natural resources taken from Ontario need to be processed in Ontario. Andrea Horwath, who was in Thunder Bay Tuesday, announced two elements of her party’s northern platform.

The city’s oldest public pool celebrated its centennial anniversary with a splash Tuesday, and some loyal pool users weren’t going to let weather rain on their celebrations.

A public meeting is being held in Wednesday night concerning water levels on the Great Lakes.

The number of single-family home starts in Thunder Bay continues to rival last year's numbers. While there were no multifamily starts last month, July saw construction begin on 34 single-detached homes throughout the Thunder Bay area.

Thunder Bay Hydro will delay its time-of-use billing. Citing software issues, officials with the utility company confirmed on Tuesday that they would delay the transition to their new rates until October.

The newly constructed highway lanes near the Terry Fox Lookout are open to traffic. Five kilometres of new highway between Hodder Avenue and Highway 527 opened up this past weekend.